Quote

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

C. S. Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Essayist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Literary Scholar
Medievalist
Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Clive Hamilton
N. W. Clerk
CS Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Faith
Shakespeare
Hope
Plays
Character
Characters
Find
Seeing
Play
Looking
Like
Reading
Space
Heaven
Exploring

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

Image
Beauty is not democratic she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.
C. S. Lewis
Image
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
C. S. Lewis
Image
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
C. S. Lewis
Image
All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
C. S. Lewis
Image
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
C. S. Lewis
Image
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
C. S. Lewis
Image
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
C. S. Lewis
Image
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. Lewis
Image
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
C. S. Lewis
Image
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
C. S. Lewis
Image
If the world is meaningless, then so are we if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
C. S. Lewis
Image
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
C. S. Lewis